Hi We recently had a haul out, cleaned hull, cleaned/serviced prop and had the fuel injector pump serviced. Back in the water we were only achieving 2000 at WOT. I cleaned out some heavy carbon build

Hi all and greetings for 1 May, unfortunately a sailor always has to work, so also on 1 of May. Today we had contact with orcas near Barbate, Spain, and these beasts destroyed one of the steering cabl

Hello fellow Amel owners, Last autumn I installed two 410w solar panels to replace my two 256w ones. I am delighted, in bright Turkish April sunshine, running two fridges and the deep freeze my batter

Hi everyone, Our manual furler hub for the genoa furler needs replacing urgently. We need to get an engineer to manufacture a replacement manual furling hub for the Genoa Furler on our SM2K. Does anyo

Dear Amelians, I left my boat in Sicily this winter for about 4 months. I did all the recommended wintering procedures. I have returned to the boat and am checking all the systems and so far everythin

Hi all, The last two rings of my anchor chain tend to rust very quickly (in about one year), notwithstanding the fact that the anchor is most of the time stored on deck and totally dry. So far my prac

Hello! How often shall one replace the oil in the gearbox? We have the VP TMD22 engine on our SM. Any special oil quality requirements? Paul on SY Kerpa SM#259

Hi Guys I am trying to replace the rubber gas pipe on my Santorin #124 I easily managed to replace the pipe in the rear locker which connects to a copper pipe. The problem I have is the blue rubber pi

Charles, The intercooler as supplied is attached to the starboard side of the engine. If you must change the starter motor or impeller you must remove the intercooler. That is why Amel flipped it upsi

Last year I noticed a little bit of water accumulating in the deck lockers. This year, on returning to WG after the winter, I found an awful lot of fresh water in the lazarette. The only explanation I

If you have a ZF Hurth 25 and an Amel-installed shaft brake, you will want to know more about this and I promise more will be forthcoming. If the ZF 25 loses oil pressure, that loss of pressure will t

Hello Bill, Do you advise putting some corrosion X on the friction cones of the windlass to get a good free fall? Or is it a bad idea leading to slipping in high load circumstances. Thanks Denis

Eric, “I think there is something wrong with the engine, there is black smoke coming out of the galley sink” was what I heard—followed by the above photo. This is the best $79- you will ever spend. ht

We changed the battery bank to AGM so we need to upgrade the Alternator. Leece-Neville 175AMP Model BSC3157V Our Electrician chose Balmar-624. On the first try, the 24V alarm light on the panel went o

Welcome back, Please email me at kimberlite@.... If you have the 4jh3 Yanmar—I have a bunch of spares for that engine. I replaced it with a 4jh4hte. Fair Winds Eric Kimberlite Amel Super Maramu #376

Vi Vito, Are you in NY? I sold the old engine complete ; it was running well at 7500 hours. I installed a 10,000 btu Dometic version of this unit in my aft cabin https://www.dometic.com/en-nz/professi

Hello group members, I have a rather urgent question: In Amel 55, water flows continuously in the front toilet bowl. When I turn off the freshwater pump, it stops. I would like to know what could be t

Hi group sometimes good news can be shared :-) just received the new sails (main and mizzen, pro radial) from QSAILS. They arrived just in time and look great. We ordered in February, agreed deadline

I When I purchased Cloudstreet in 2019 a Yanmar 4JH-80 had just been installed. It had 14 hours on the tach. It is a common rail engine. It was purchased and installed in Martinique Everything I had h

Hello! I'm wondering where people with Sharkis are storing their Jerry cans of gasoline and diesel? Doing some research, it looks like the cockpit locker is not a good place because of fumes building